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WEEKLY family theatre shows and a series of children's drama workshops will be staged at the St Maiy's Centre, in Clitheroe, this summer. Pendle Productions, who produced the


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pantomime "Jack and the Beanstalk" in Clitheroe last year, are bringing their "Stoiytellers Theatre Compan/' to perform at the centre each Tuesday with a different show each week of a classic from children's literature. The season opens on July 24th with a musical


production of Lewis Carroll's "Alice Through the Looking Class" and contines the following Tuesday Ouly 31st) with "The Secret Carden". On August 7th a production of "The Railway


Children" steams into Clitheroe and on August 21 S t it's the classic Wizard of Oz. Rnally, on August 28th, the summer season closes with that


swashbuckling tale of pirates,'Treasure Island". All the shows are presented by the Stoiytellers


Theatre Company, who have a 27-year national reputation for touring performances of classic literature. They begin at the centre in Church Street at 12-30 p.m. and provide a wonderful ’ opportunity to bring a picnic and a blanket and have lunch while watching the show. Show Tickets are priced at £7 and there is one


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adult free with every two child tickets bought. Season tickets are also available for all five


performances priced at £60 for two children and one adult. • As well as watching, children can tread the


boards themselves by taking part in a weekly series of summer school performance workshops. Run by professionals from the theatre industry, they take place at the St Mar/s Centre each • Tuesday from 9-30 a.m to 5 p.m. for seniors ■


...... .. (aged seven to 16) and from 9-30 a.m. to 2 p.m.


for juniors (aged four to six). The series for seniors starts on July 24th with


a West End Musicals Workshop and continues with Stage Fighting and Stunts on July 31 st; Make your own Film from Storyboard to Screen on August 7th; Theatre Dance Moves and Street


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Dance on August 21st; and A Play in a Day on August 28th. The juniors'workshops on the same days will be based on creative play and include storytelling, acting, music and dance, puppets, craft, pirates and princesses. Senior workshop tickets are £16 per day and junior workshop tickets £12 per day. All workshop-


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Jonathan Broadbent as Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. ;


■ REVIEW: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" =;


at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, until August 4th. Box office: 0161 8339833 Web: www.royalexchange.co.uk


HOW can I describe the Filter Theatre Coriipanv's production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?


clev^ vvildly funny and very, very The group of actors, designers and musicians


work together on a tight schedule to produce ' mnovative drama. After their success with Twelfth Night for the RSC's Complete Works Festival some years ago, they moved on to other projects and


With the help of the Lyric Hammersmith they


developed their interpretation in 201T and now' they are presenting in the round at the Royal


Exchange. A cast of 10 plus one present the play with rnost of the farniliar stoiy and much of the


beautiful language, but the running time is just " ■ under two hours so, clearly, much has been cut ‘ '


Howeyer, what replaces it is a stunning use of / - sound.


, Chris Branch and Alan Pagan haye their complex


sound equipment on stage and create superb effects, particularly for the fairies, and all the cast move between acting roles and helping and the


musicians also act as the Rude Mechanicals. Gaughan plays a brilirantly funny Peter


.. Quince, who tries to be in charge of everything. Gemma Saunders, Rebecca Scroggs, Rhys


Rusbatch and John Lightbody play the four confused lovers, and Poppy Miller and Jonathan


Broadbent double as Hippolita and Theseus and Trania and Oberon where their comic talents shine. Ferdy Roberts is a marvellous Puck as a bearded vyorkmah with all kinds of tricks. I can't give away the first big comic upset, but


the Plus One Actor is a great surprise and a delight. What I liked so much about this production was the humour, the acting, but most of its clever playing about with the "suspension of disbelief" aspert. This becomes a play within a play within a play, but with knowing asides to the audience, so that we become part of the comedy (which works- well in the Exchange's intimate atmosphere).


. ..The contemporary elements are also wittily. , appropriate. I send a big thank you to all the ■ esigners and production team for a great evening 3 play I know so well. ;--


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tickets also include free.entry to that da/s theatre performance. A workshop season ticket


costs £70 for seniors and £50 for juniors. Tickets are available from the St Mary's Centre


Box office on 01200 425522 or for more information visit the St Mary's Centre website at vvww.clitheroecentre.co.uk


Lewis Carrol's timeless tale of 'Alice


• Through . the Looking - Glass' is just one of five ' children's classics to be performed on stage at Clitheroe's St Mary's Centre this summer.


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Property team’s new home in Clitheroe


THE Lancashire office of Smiths Gore - a leading rural property consultant of char­ tered surveyors and property advisers - has relocated from Eastway Business Village in Preston to 5 Church Street, Clitheroe. The nine members of staff who make


up the team at Clitheroe include six pro­ fessionals, five of whom are RICS quali­ fied, providing an unparalleled depth and breadth of experience. Smiths Gore partner David Steel said:


“This move will allow us to deliver our full range of services across Lancashire, Mer­ seyside, South Cumbria and West York­ shire. It will also heighten our local profile considerably as we are the only national firm in the area.and provides us with scope for future expansion. “We have a very capable team in our


Lancashire office and a strong core busi­ ness and this move offers us an exciting op­ portunity to grow our business.” The main services that will be offered


from the new office include; rural property consultancy, estate management, rural property valuations, sporting consultancy, property sales, lettings and management, farm agency, renewables, architecture, building surveying and planning. , The new office contact details are 5


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HOTHOMES


ON THE MOVE: The Smiths Gore team of professional


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